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Thanks Martin
Martin Cooper wrote:
>On 6/9/05, William Noto <wnoto@openfinance.com> wrote:
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>>Won't you still have an OS dependency in there with that \\?
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>Yes, it would be OS dependent. However, IE is the only browser (that
>I'm aware of) that sends the full path, so that probably doesn't
>matter. (Not sure what IE on Mac does, but it's broken in plenty of
>other ways too.)
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>>I think you can use File.pathSeperatorChar to handle that.
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>Nope. If the upload came from a Windows system and the server is
>running on *nix, then the system separator is *not* what you want.
>You'd be looking for '/' in a path that uses '\' as the separator.
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>Martin Cooper
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Schalk Neethling [mailto:schalk@volume4.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 3:48 PM
>>To: Martin Cooper
>>Cc: Jakarta Commons Users List
>>Subject: Re: [fileUpload] Question about file name
>>
>>If anyone experiences this same problem here is the solution:
>>
>>Instead of:
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>>File fullFile = new File(item.getName());
>>uploadPDF = fullFile.getName();
>>File savedFile = new File(serverFolder, uploadPDF);
>>item.write(savedFile);
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>>Use:
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>>int i = item.getName().lastIndexOf('\\');
>>uploadPDF = item.getName().substring(i+1);
>>File savedFile = new File(serverFolder, item.getName().substring(i+1) );
>>item.write(savedFile);
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>>Martin Cooper wrote:
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>>>On 6/9/05, Schalk Neethling <schalk@volume4.com> wrote:
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>>>>Hey there everyone!
>>>>
>>>>Hope someone can give me an answer here. I am using the fileUpload
>>>>package in one of my apps and have had some trouble getting the actual
>>>>file name when the user is using IE. In IE the entire location string is
>>>>sent by the browser instead of just the file name. Now, I have found a
>>>>way to get past that, I thought, but now here is my problem.
>>>>
>>>>When testing the app on my local WindowsXP machine on both Firefox and
>>>>IE it works perfectly, however, when I move this up to the server, Red
>>>>Hat Linux, the file name written to disk when using IE is completely
>>>>
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>>wrong.
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>>>>Here is the code I use to get the file name:
>>>>if(item.getFieldName().equals("uploadPDF")) {
>>>>
>>>>File fullFile = new File(item.getName());
>>>>uploadPDF = fullFile.getName();
>>>>File savedFile = new File(serverFolder, uploadPDF);
>>>>item.write(savedFile);
>>>>}
>>>>
>>>>Any idea why this would return the file name differently depending on
>>>>which platform the app runs. BTW, the files are uploaded using a
>>>>WindowsXP machine and IE 6.0 as the client. Any ideas? Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>I suspect that it's not the platform so much as the JVM. My guess is
>>>that the File implementation on the JVM you're using on Red Hat is not
>>>parsing the Windows path that's provided by IE as you are expecting it
>>>to. You are assuming that File will parse both Windows and Unix paths.
>>>I believe this is true on Sun JVMs, but not on some Linux JVMs.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Martin Cooper
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